Ben Maurer

[Rebecca Maurer @rebecca__maurer]

🧵🌈 1/My name is Rebecca Maurer, I'm running for Cleveland City Council, and I'm queer. As we enter Pride Month, I want to share a bit of what's been on my mind as an openly LGBTQIA+ candidate whose queerness is not the first thing most people know about me or my campaign.

[Meta Open Source @MetaOpenSource]

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[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

It's great to see the ever-growing group of companies using @rustlang to write code that is both efficient and safe. https://t.co/AhEq2JfZSJ

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

Amazing new research on testing Byzantine Fault Tolerance from @calibra. Twins turns a BFT implementation against itself automatically generating grueling tests that can catch in minutes bugs that took researchers over ten years to find manually.

[Shehar Bano @thatBano]

New pre-print “Twins: White-Glove Approach for BFT Testing”, a new approach for systematically testing BFT implementations: https://t.co/EzbFXRYw7n w/ @alberto_sonnino @dahlia_malkhi Andrey and Dmitri. @calibra @Libra_

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

Awesome updates from @libra_ today marrying blockchain technology with accepted regulatory frameworks. Developers will benefit from this interoperable network built on decades of distributed systems research. https://t.co/p27FhYoAC1

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

Our very own and most awesome @dahlia_malkhi has a book hitting the shelves about the works of turing award winner Leslie Lamport. Check it out!

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

Lots of awesome progress on building the software behind @Libra_: https://t.co/IRRS1qMuTz

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

I just published "Why building a new protocol for money is the only way to truly change the game for people" https://t.co/6tMjANxKc8

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@LuisvonAhn @duolingo Congrats!

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@TalBeerySec @ZenGo @Libra_ @LibraDev @odedleiba Great to have you guys as part of the team!

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@odedleiba Thanks for the contribution! Here’s to many more!

[Oded Leiba @odedleiba]

I guess I'm a Libra core dev now 🚀😆

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@mcolyer @natfriedman Yep! We had a great chat!

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

.@natfriedman anybody from GitHub who might be interested in this feedback? The ability to do "stacked diffs" like this has been super helpful at Facebook.

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@protolambda Thanks, passed it along!

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

Facebook's Fellowship Program has a new track to support PhD students studying blockchain & cryptocurrency. Applications open Aug 12. https://t.co/joxxPzjQeO

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@toly @kevinweil @Libra_ @solana Thanks @toly! Let us know how we can help you. Would love to work together to build a strong Move ecosystem.

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@jhscott Over time, we've mixed both having PEs report via a PE reporting chain and reporting within the team — the latter being more common these days. Regardless, it's super important for the PEs to be tightly synced with the eng team.

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

Awesome to see @solana trying out the Move language from @Libra_

[Solana @solana]

We are proud to announce the integration of Libra's Move smart contract language. It's now possible to deploy third party Move modules to Solana's beta testnet 😁

https://t.co/DLZaCH6qx3

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@raulitojordan In both cases the user can either talk to a validator or to another full node. They don't have to trust the node they are talking to — both types of queries will come with a merkle tree proof to a commitment signed by 2f+1 validators

[Ben Maurer @bmaurer]

@raulitojordan By RPC we just mean any way that instances of Libra communicate. Users will have 2 options for rpc 1) using a set of RPCs to create a full blockchain replica 2) using a set of RPCs that query individual pieces of information